Current Position

Highest Degree

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My research interests are in the areas of intergroup relations and stereotype control, counterfactual thinking, negotiations, social power, and social judgment and categorization. Generally, my research explores the conditions that promote and prevent the infiltration of bias into thought and deed. Much of this research explores the conditions that influence one's awareness of alternatives and divergent perspectives and the relationship between awareness of alternatives and bias. In addition, I am intrigued by the paradoxes that emerge when people seek control over psychological or social processes.

I have investigated these processes in a variety of contexts:

--The role of perspective-taking and stereotype suppression in creating and reducing bias in intergroup contexts (with Gordon Moskowitz and Gillian Ku)

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